The Summer that changed everything - a tsitp story

Every summer, Ella Conklin spent time at the Fisher family beach house in Cousins Beach with her cousin Belly. Along with Belly's brother Steven and the Fisher brothers Conrad and Jeremiah, they were inseparable - five kids, a tight-knit group, one endless summer after another.

Until two years ago, when a tragic event changed Ella's life forever.

Since then, she hasn't set foot in Cousins. No salty air. No campfires. No laughter by the dock.

Now, two years later, her mother Claire decides it's time to send Ella back - back to the place where everything was once easy. Hoping she might find a piece of herself again.

But when Ella returns to Cousins, she quickly realizes: She's not the only one who has changed. Conrad, Jeremiah, Steven - even Belly - are no longer the kids she remembered. Feelings that have long been dormant begin to stir. Old wounds reopen. And new questions arise: How much of the past can you keep when you've already become someone else? And what happens when memories are no longer enough to hold the present together?